Yihan Gao

Email: yihangao97[at]gmail[dot]com

About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation (supervised by Wei Liu) at the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I am interested in the Transport Network Modeling, Electrified and Automated Transportation, and Railway system.

Education

Experiences

Publications

  1. Gao, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, Z., Du, B. (2025). Managing parking and charging services for electric autonomous vehicles considering vehicle-to-grid facilities. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 201, 104680.
  2. Xu, G., Zhou, P., Liu, W., Gao, Y. (2025). Seat allocation optimization for railway systems with equity considerations. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 2448707.
  3. Xu, G., Liu, Y., Gao, Y., Liu, W. (2023). Integrated optimization of train stopping plan and seat allocation scheme for railway systems under equilibrium travel choice and elastic demand. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 177, 103231.
  4. Xu, G., Gao, Y., Liu, W. (2023). Pareto-improving seat allocation for high-speed railway networks with equilibrium flows. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 154, 104261.
  5. Gao, Y., Yang, W., Xu, G. (2022). An Optimization Method for Railway of Multi-train Seat allocation Problem with Cancellation and Refund Policy. Journal of Railway Science and Engineering. 19(03):634-641.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Gao, Y., Liu, W. Robust planning of bus fleet electrification and charging facility deployment. In the 12th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis conference (TRISTAN XII). June 22-27, 2025, Okinawa, Japan.
  2. Gao, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, Z. Joint optimization of vehicle-to-grid facilities and parking and charging services in the era of electric autonomous vehicles. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2023: Transport and Equity, 551–558.
  3. Xu, G., Liu, Y., Gao, Y., Liu, W. Integrated optimization of train stop planning and seat allocation for railway systems under equilibrium travel choice and elastic demand. In 4th International Symposium on Multimodal Transportation. Nanjing, China, 2021.

Projects/Awards